Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.

- Confucius

Best Quotes about Wisdom

Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.

Kraus, Karl

Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.

Quintilian

The ear that heareth the reproof of life abideth among the wise. [Proverbs 15: 31]

Bible

The live in wisdom who see themselves in all and all in them, who have renounced every selfish desire and sense craving tormenting the heart.

Bhagavad Gita

A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .

The wisdom of others remains dull till it is writ over with our own blood. We are essentially apart from the world; it bursts into our consciousness only when it sinks its teeth and nails into us.

Hoffer, Eric

The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

Though wisdom cannot be gotten for gold, still less can be gotten without it.

Butler, Samuel

It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed Wisdom. And then I know exactly what is going to follow: Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

James Boswell

11.

Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.

12.

No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

13.

He swallowed a lot of wisdom, but all of it seems to have gone down the wrong way.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of face within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.

Coolidge, Calvin

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There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.

Confucius

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The wisest man is he who does not fancy that he is so at all.

Boileau, Nicholas

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The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill temper.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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Wisdom hath her excesses, and no less need of moderation than folly.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.

Mencken, H. L.

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Look at those they call unfortunate and at a closer view, you'll find many of them are unwise.

Young, Andrew

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Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

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Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh

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Many people might have attained wisdom had they not assumed they already had it.

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A wise woman puts a grain of sugar into everything she says to a man, and takes a grain of salt with everything he says to her.

Rowland, Helen

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Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise. For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. [1 Corinthians 3:18-19]

Bible

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There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.

Freud, Sigmund

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The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson. The mountain teaches stability and grandeur; the ocean immensity and change. Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes, -- every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man. Even the bee and ant have brought their little lessons of industry and economy.

Marden, Orison Swett

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A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be lead by the nose.

Twain, Mark

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The wisdom of a learned man comet by opportunity of leisure: and he that hath little business shall become wise. [Ecclesiasticus 38:25]

Bible

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The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

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Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.

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True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

Socrates

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A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

Proverb, African

38.

It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.

Quinault, Philippe

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The heart of the wise man lies quiet like limpid water.

Proverb, Camerounian

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The wise man says it cannot be done, but the fool goes and does it.

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What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children.

Blake, William

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Wise are they who have learned these truths: Trouble is temporary. Time is a tonic. Tribulation is a test tube.

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Kings may be judges of the earth, but wise men are the judges of kings.

Gabirol, Ibn

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Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning.

Evans, Bergen

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Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.

Brecht, Bertolt